Hellooooo!
Guess what! I'm in the Philippines! Whoa! Crazy huh?! Guess what! I'm almost six months through my mission! =( =/ CRAZIER! So this week has been another great, we should know transfer announcements this upcoming Saturday! Whoa! No pictures this week cuz we're at a different internet shop and it like disabled my documents or somethin, I don't know. It's weird, so next week na lang!
So to answer a couple questions my mom asked. One: Sister Lagrosa did get baptized this weekend, it was great! =D The cool thing is, we now know the whole story of her disowning. So I guess like two Saturdays ago, her dad warned her that if she continued going to church and listening to the missionaries she would be kicked out. She ignored it and continued doing what was right. As she got ready to go to church Sunday morning her dad followed through on her threat and told her that if she left she couldnt come back. So she comes to church bawling but had already got the okay to live with some relatives. Later that night, she finds out that her parents want her back (kinda mostly cuz she does the washing and cooking..haha) but then she got taken back! So it was all good! So all in all kinda like a severe test of faith, and she rocked it! Two: "Are you still running or did the dogs scare you from exercise?" Well, I would still be running but higher authority, the ZLs I think, told us that we couldn't do splits of me and robbins to do that, so that kinda killed that one. =( And three: "You do realize how sad it is that you just barely cooked your first scrambled eggs right? Do you get to eat eggs often?" Yes, that's bad, BUT I'm not a big egg fan and better late than never right?! ha! And yes, everyone else in the apartment eats eggs for breakfast every day. They're about 6 pesos an egg so really cheap cuz there are chickens EVERYWHERE! They're really annoying. haha Oh and four, "What should we send you for Christmas?" haha well...... just kidding! Lots of letters =D Those are the best if you really wanna send me something. Okay moving onto this past week.
So Tuesday, I've got exciting news! I got to ring a doorbell! haha It was actually fairly exciting so don't laugh. There are no doorbells here! Later on in the day we saw Sister Aurora's husband and stopped to talk to him a little bit. He's pretty cool cuz he wants to join the church with his family but kinda doesnt wanna change but is really busy but knows he'll get baptized eventually haha (He, like half the other fathers here, are fisherman. And they are out fishing 5 of the 7 days of the week so they're often out at sea on Sunday and its really frustrating cuz we need priesthood holders) But Aurora's husband said that his son Renz (The adorable little guy that likes to wear his white school shirt to church to be like a missionary and wants to be a missionary when he grows up) always counsels his father. Everytime he sees him smoking he's like "Dad don't you know that that's bawal? Throw those away" or if he's drinking he tells him pretty much the same thing. Renz rocks! And we tracted (knocking doors) into our "friends" who are 7th Day "Super"-ventists haha It's like going to war talking to them, I'm really not a fan of that. Yet we've went there three times this past week cuz they're super friendly and say that they're receptive to our message but its like hard to get a word in with them haha. I think we're going there like one more time this week and if it goes how its been going this past week, wala na.
Nothing really exciting happened on Wednesday, sorry!
Oh geez....Thursday...haha We ate lunch and then went out and tracted for five hours straight! Oh geez that night, I was exhausted! But it was actually really pretty successful, probably cuz we honestly worked really hard. And it was surprisingly successful because its like hard to have success during the afternoon cuz everyone is either sleeping or working like I've said before haha, but it was a good time. I try to keep track of all the people we give pamphlets and talk to so that we can talk to them another time, there were so many people that I literally wrote "wayyyy too many people" under my "pamphlets" section of my notes in my planner. It was a good day though!
Friday we had Service, we just cleaned up a lot for a family by the church and organized all the junk that they keep so they can sell it haha. But I got to build a fire, being the great eagle scout I am haha so that was fun. And Sister Lagrosa and John Robert passed their interviews that day so they could be baptized on Saturday, woo!
Saturday, was the really the first "war of words" with the 7th day superventists we brought the ammunition of a couple RMs as well as us two haha. But it went pretty good, like I said earlier it just doesnt feel like the other lessons so it's kinda weird/annoying. Of course they made sure that we would return and talk again. But on the way to their house, I broke another tulay...hahaha That makes number two for me and I still get crap for the first one! I dont know why though cuz both Elder Robbins and Osumo had broken two tulays before I had broken my second one! Not fair! Then that night we had baptisms! It was like night baptisms haha cuz it was almost dark when we had them and the font is outside, so it was kinda fun cuz of that.
So Sunday was church! In correlation/PEC meeting that morning I learned that I have a ton more duties that they want me to do on top of what they already have me doing which hasnt been too bad yet. But ugh! But its all good =D I got this don't worry. Then I taught Sunday School! In the to-do list of my planner I wrote "Rock Sunday School Lesson" and then "Sunday School lesson." After the lesson I checked the Sunday School lesson box. I didn't feel like I rocked it but it went pretty well, I was content. And I found that I could say most everything I wanted to, so that was good! We had war number two with the superventists that night. This time we brought President Nepomuceno and he brought his brother hahaha Again they're super nice, but not much for listening. They believe (from what they've read on the internet) that all those who worship on Sunday are under the Pope. And that the Pope and Obama are going to ban all commercial activity all over the world on Sunday to the extent that you cant buy anything, you cant go anywhere and you can't even go to the hospital. So yeah...hahaha But on the bright side we started teaching a sweet family! They're asking super questions and seem to be really interested, I'm pumped!
Earlier this morning, we went fishing! =D I woke up at 5:45.. =( But its all good|! I didn't catch anything =( But Bogs caught a cool little fish and Tonton caught a little fish and a couple little crabs. So that was fun! I'll have pictures of it next week I think.
So this weeks been great! Hope I'm not transferred next week! Cya later! Ciao!
Love
Elder Michael Gadberry
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